“Suppose such a man has a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things mentioned previously

“‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by water. It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

“As for you, son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment, are you willing to pronounce judgment on the bloody city? Then confront her with all her abominable deeds!

“‘See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood.

“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.

Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey – shedding blood and destroying lives – so they can get dishonest profit.

To arouse anger, to take vengeance, I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I will also make the pile high.

I will drench the land with the flow of your blood up to the mountains, and the ravines will be full of your blood.

So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.

You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.

But Ephraim bitterly provoked him to anger; so he will hold him accountable for the blood he has shed, his Lord will repay him for the contempt he has shown.

I will produce portents both in the sky and on the earth – blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the Lord comes – that great and terrible day!

Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed! She is full of lies; she is filled with plunder; she has hoarded her spoil!

I will bring distress on the people and they will stumble like blind men, for they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dirt; their flesh will be scattered like manure.

Moreover, as for you, because of our covenant relationship secured with blood, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see the blood I will pass over you, and this plague will not fall on you to destroy you when I attack the land of Egypt.

Take a branch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out the door of his house until morning.

So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”